Toni Morrison

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2021
  

  Banning "Beloved" Won't Help Protect Kids, But it Will Help Sanitize Racism

  by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  It's worthwhile to consider Morrison's characterization of censoring Huck Finn as a “purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/7/2021
  

  Toni Morrison's Vision of Justice Was an Ethos of Care

  by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  "What does justice look like for centuries of systemic abuse and violence enacted by a society built upon withholding justice from Black people? In all of her novels Toni Morrison contemplates the nature and practice of justice."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/18/2021
  

  How a Mass Suicide by Slaves Caused the Legend of the Flying African to Take Off

  by Thomas Hallock

  A major trope of African American folklore converted an ill-fated effort at escape into a tale of freedom. Though the "flying Africans" story has been told and recorded throughout the African diaspora in the Americas, St. Simons Island, Georgia, is the home of the myth. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/7/2019
  

  Toni Morrison and the ‘Human Project’

  by Robert Greene II

  Through her novels and essays, Morrison helped inspire a generation of writers to reckon with American history.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  10-11-17
  

  Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness

  by Nell Irvin Painter

  The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.